Allen Holub writes:>[The question is: should you write FORTRAN or LISP?]>Real programmers can write LISP in any language :-)

So we have the following:

* You can write LISP in any language
* You can write FORTRAN in any language
* SOME lisps run like FOTRAN if you write FORTRAN
* fortran runs like LISP if you write LISP.

I admit it's stretching the analogy, but the point is that a language
with sophisticated structures might LOOK inefficient, but isn't
necessarily so. Even things like LISP can, if you write FORTRAN, be
compiled to efficient code.